Late capitalism has injected an aesthetic gloss over all of the ways one can–and generation z and below has been forced to–interact with everything: how we labor (zany), communicate (interesting), and consume (cute). Remember those from the subtitle?! Those are are our aesthetic categories (whoa, that’s the titular line!). I suspect that continued reliance on ML agents will fortify categorization: it is harder to index things if you aren’t stuffing them into neat little substacks. Tell me again if Muddy Mudskipper is more like this or that, please, disembodied robot guide.

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